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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Mississippi Newsletter for Sunday July 21, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Federal Court Upholds Mississippi Lifetime Felony Disenfranchisement Law
INDIANOLA, Mississippi, July 20 (TNScapp) -- Mississippi Center for Justice issued the following statement on July 18, 2024, with 12 organizations: * * * The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of Mississippi, along with the Mississippi Center for Justice, One Voice, Mississippi Votes, Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, Black Voters Matter, Mississippi Poor People's Campaign, Reaching and Educating for Community Hope (RECH) Foundation, Strong Arms  more

With Owners of Ohio's Gavin Plant Pushing for Fewer Safeguards, One Million Gallons of Coal Ash Waste Spill in Minnesota
WASHINGTON, July 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Just weeks after a court challenge to new coal ash safeguards joined in part by the operators of the General James M. Gavin Power Plant in southeastern Ohio was thrown out, about one million gallons of coal ash wastewater spilled from Minnesota Power's Boswell Energy Center, with some reaching a reservoir of the Mississippi River. The spill was discovered Tuesday. The spill raises major new conce  more